Michael Howlett is Burnaby Mountain Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Part 1: Introduction 1. What is a Policy Tool? An Overview of the Tools Approach to Public Policy 2. The History of the Tools Approach in the Policy Sciences: Key Definitions and Problematics 3. Where Tools are Deployed in the Policy Process: Policy Instruments and the Policy Cycle 4. The Need to Understand and Integrate Procedural and Substantive Tools Part 2: Basic Concepts 5. How Tools Work: Policy Instruments as Activators and Mechanisms 6. What Tools Do: Policy Targeting and Behaviour 7. Portfolios of Policy Tools: Types of Policy Mixes 8. Understanding Primary and Secondary Relationships Among Policy Tools in Policy Mixes Part 3: Agenda-Setting Tools 9. Agenda-Setting Tools in Theory and Practice 10. Formal Agenda-Setting Government Tools: Periodic Evaluations and Reviews 11. Tools to Promote Popular Mobilization and Social Advocacy: Social Identities, Policy Programs, Careers, and Education 12: Consultation Tools and Agenda-Setting 13: Tools for Managing the Media: Monitoring, Branding and Messaging Part 4: Policy Formulation Tools 14. Policy Formulation Tools: New Perspectives 15. Indicators and Measures as Policy Tools 16. A tools-based approach to understanding and optimizing policy advice in and beyond policy formulation 17. Tools for Structuring Policy Advice: Commissions of Inquiry and Task Forces as Policy Formulation Instruments 18. Collaboration as a Policy Tool in the Policy Formulation and Other Aspects of the Policy Process Part 5: Decision-Making Tools 19. Supporting Decision-Making within the Policy Cycle: Techniques and Tools 20. Scenario Analysis, Forecasting and Backcasting as Policy Tools 21. Formal problem structuring tools and multi-criteria decision analysis 22. Simulation Modeling as a Policy Tool 23. Policy Experiments and Pilots as Tools for Decision-Making Part 6: Policy Implementation Tools 24. The Organizational Tools of Government: The "Forgotten Fundamental" 25. Implementing Regulatory Tools: Regulatory Tools and the Use of Authority 26. Treasure Tools: Using Public Funds to Achieve Policy Objectives 27. Information as a Policy Tool: The Role of Government Communication 28. Non-State Market-Driven Tools: Capacity Challenges in Non-State Governance Contexts Part 7: Policy Evaluation Tools 29. Theoretical Framework for Public Policy Evaluation: Investigative Designs and Outcomes in a Global Setting 30. Policy Evaluation Instruments: Tools for Learning 31. Tools in Internal and External Evaluations 32. Administrative Procedure as a Tool for Participatory and Efficient Public Governance 33. The Democratic Potential of Evaluation as a Policy Making Instrument: A Possibility or a Chimera? Part 8: Selecting and Mixing Tools 34. Policy Tools and (New) Governance Arrangements: Policy Mixes and Their Effectiveness 35. Measuring Policy instrument interactions in policy mixes: Surveying the conceptual and methodological landscape 36. Policy Tools and the Attributes of Effectiveness: Spaces, Mixes and Instruments 37. Changing the Composition of Policy Mixes: Lock-In, Path Dependency, and the Sequencing of Policy Tools 38. Changing Policy Tools on the Fly: Calibrating Policy Instruments Part 9: The Future of Policy Tools 39. The Future of Policy Tools: Past Trends and Current Directions 40. Collaboration as the Future of Organizational Tools 41. Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Regulatory Tools 42. The Future of Financial Tools: Will Social Impact Bonds Yield Results? 43. The Future of Informational Tools with Big Data Informatics: Opportunities and Challenges for Evidence-Based Policy-Making 44. The Future of Behavioural Tools in Public Policy